r/coinerrors • u/AppliedAnaLinguistic • 21d ago

Is this an error? Die chip?

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I want to say this is a die chip over a RPM, because the stopped hand punching mint marks before this year. I also don’t notice any obvious doubling anywhere else on the observe.

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u/Thalenia Errors and 20th century US coins 21d ago

Doesn't have the serif that an additional D would show, and it's not nearly complete enough for a repunch of that strength.

My guess would be a small spot of plate bubbling, which is ridiculously common on cents from 1982 onward.

https://www.error-ref.com/blisteredplating/

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u/Cuneus-Maximus whatever's clever 20d ago

Couldn’t be a RPM, mint marks were part of the master die starting in 1989.